The Contribution of personality, motivation, academic risk-taking, and metacognition to the creative ability in mathematics

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Creative people are most valuable treasures of a nation. In order to cope with the complicated problems of the rapidly changing and developing modern life and to ensure that the society makes progress via new breakthroughs and inventions, we need creative individuals. Thus, the research on creativity in the school environment where creativity takes its roots from is crucial. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the extent to which personality traits, motivation, academic risk-taking and metacognition explain the mathematical creative ability of high school students. The study was carried out during the fall semester of 2011-2012 academic year at two science high schools and a private high school. A total of 217 preparatory and ninth grade students were involved in the study. The participants completed a set of measures about personality traits, motivation, academic risk-taking, metacognition and creative ability in mathematics. Standard multiple regression analysis was conducted to evaluate how well the independent variables predicted creative ability in mathematics. The results revealed that openness to experience and consciousness were significantly correlated with creative ability in mathematics. However, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism were not correlated with creativity scores. Moreover, intrinsic goal orientation followed by openness to experience was the most significant predictor of mathematical creative ability. Yet, academic risk-taking was not significantly correlated with creative ability. Although knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition showed moderate correlations with creative ability in mathematics, they failed to predict creative ability in multiple regression equation.
Mathematics, Education, Secondary., Creative ability., Motivation (Psychology)., Risk-taking (Psychology)., Self-perception.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614451/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21601
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Baş, “The Contribution of personality, motivation, academic risk-taking, and metacognition to the creative ability in mathematics,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2012.
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